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- Comment on 1 week ago:
As others have stated, it’s a tiling window manager. Many, including me, prefer it to the usual floating window managers that most desktops use.
But I’ve been using sway since switching to wayland after years with i3. I see lots of hyprland hype, but i’m happy with my sway workflow and don’t see anything about hyprland that makes me want to switch or even try it out.
- Comment on Latex programming socks 8 months ago:
I zoomed in looking for tex code. Was disappointed.
- Comment on Re-Evolved 8 months ago:
Just ducks.
- Comment on Mr. BOOZE 8 months ago:
That looks like ranch dressing.
- Comment on Playing guitar tablatures in Rust 9 months ago:
Super cool! Way many years ago i used powertab which was overshadowed by guitarpro. For whatever reason i preferred powertab, cause it was free? I don’t really remember. Just did some searching and it looks like powertab lives on!
- Comment on Which side are you on? 10 months ago:
As someone that grades undergraduates, I’m happy that they not use the letter “x” to imply multiplication.
- Comment on we don't talk about powerpoint 11 months ago:
Powerpoint is what made me originally vow to try to never use word or powerpoint again, about 15 years ago. I was making a mathematically-dense presentation and became so frustrated with it that I wanted to throw my computer out the window. I still was somewhat new to latex at the time but figured there had to be some way to make presentations in latex. Found beamer and have never used pp for a real presentation again.
- Comment on Your typesetting will look professional, they said 1 year ago:
Physics professor here. I tell my students that i will give them unlimited help and assistance if they want to learn latex. I find that most students prefer latex once they get the hang of it.
I’m incredibly biased though. There is rarely a situation that I would prefer to use word over latex.
- Comment on How Can I Make this Legless Bed Rise 2-inches? 1 year ago:
If the 2x4 width (about 1.5) is too small, 2x3 lumber is common. Get a bunch and nail two boards together to use three 3 inch (actually about 2.5) so that you don’t worry about the board tipping.
Since your current frame is legless, i’d probably do a decent sized frame underneath so not just supported at corners.
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 1 year ago:
Phyphox is similar, not sure if it has all the same capabilities though.
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 1 year ago:
Fit Notes - simple lifting progress app that i’ve been using for years. On play store.
Kvaesitso - launcher on fdroid. Has become my favorite launcher.
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 1 year ago:
You say this as if command line is bad? I love the command line for certain tasks. A very common task I do is convert an image from one filetype to another. How does this work on windows? Assuming I have a program that works with each image filetype, I open up the program, click on some menus and dropdown selections and click convert or “save as file type”. On linux, where every major distro has imagemagick installed by default I type
convert image.jpg image.pdfand done. I mean, how much easier can that be?
Or another example is merging a bunch of pdfs. I imagine adobe acrobat can do this, but I’ve never bothered to learn how, as I quickly learned that I can do it using pdftk on linux by typing
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdfand done. If I do happen to forget the exact syntax for that command, google gives me the answer instantly.
If there’s a difficult command line thing to do with lots of options that can get confusing, there is a GUI interface that someone has written that has the dropdown boxes so you don’t HAVE to learn the specific options, but a little bit of learning the command line makes many tasks way more convenient than a typical windows GUI program.
Regarding wine, you’ve obviously have never used it (or likely even linux). I used my linux pc for 13 years before installing wine to play WoW. (side note to another of your strange assertions, I knew zero programming languages when I switched to linux.) Although, I wasn’t really gaming at all in that time period. I mainly do work on my pc, and the software I use is so much more convenient to us on linux than windows: mainly latex and vim. Some friend asked me to play WoW with them and I said “If I can get it to run on linux, I will.” Kind of thinking it would be a huge pain in the ass to get to run. But the whole process went super smooth, it was maybe 3 commands and now I use zero command line to launch WoW using wine.
Finally, I don’t like the windows UI. Floating desktop managers always annoyed me (including the linux ones such as gnome) whenever I needed multiple windows displayed at once. Way too much fiddliness adjusting window sizes and borders. I learned about tiling window managers, and that’s what I use now. Is tiling even possible on windows? I know you can win+arrow to kinda do this, but then rearranging can be a pain. I know this is all personal preference and most people like floating windows, but it’s a choice I can make on linux.